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Calder Casino and Race Course has slashed its horse racing dates and eliminated its poker room, and with that comes a reduction in employees. The Miami Gardens pari-mutuel revealed this week that 246 employees are being laid off, filing a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Notice as required by law. "The key departments affected are in horse racing and poker, but also some positions in support departments as well," said Matt Harper,...

Calder Casino and Race Course has slashed its horse racing dates and eliminated its poker room, and with that comes a reduction in employees. The Miami Gardens pari-mutuel revealed this week that 246 employees are being laid off, filing a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Notice as required by law. "The key departments affected are in horse racing and poker, but also some positions in support departments as well," said Matt Harper,...

Recently the Kids Cancer Foundation had its first "Kids Helping Kids" event at the Kids Cancer Foundation. The team of children along with the community helped to renovate the bedroom of Casey, a 4-year-old patient of the foundation The event is the brain child of Dr. Cynthia Mascia, a local child, adolescent and family psychologist, who donates her time to council Kids Cancer Foundation patients and families. Mascia gathered together children within the western communities who expressed an interest in wanting to meet and befriend children with cancer.

Hialeah Park Racing and Casino officials announced an "immediate and ongoing expansion" this week that will cost $60 million and be completed by the end of 2015. President John J. Brunetti said plans include expansion and enhancement of the poker room, renovations to the Fountain Terrace outdoor entertainment venue and the eventual addition of 235 slots. Those machines will be installed in the other half of the existing grandstand. Hialeah had remade half of the grandstand in order to open its current area, which houses 839 slots.

A man was arrested Wednesday after detectives observed him stealing items they had planted in a Pompano Beach hotel room. Dyllan Edwards, 23, is facing five charges, including armed burglary and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Edwards was arrested as a result of a Broward Sheriff's Office operation in which detectives placed items in a hotel room at Budgetel Inn and Suites and watched on hidden surveillance cameras as Edwards broke into the room and stole the items, according to detectives.

Coconut Creek will soon have its very own emergency medical center. West Boca Medical Center is opening a brand-new emergency services center in Coconut Creek. The facility will be its own free-standing emergency department, which means it won't be a normal hospital with inpatient stays. "Think of it as a more advanced urgent care center," said West Boca Medical Center Chief Executive Officer Mitch Feldman. "It will be in between an urgent care center and your regular emergency department, because we'll be open 24/7, and we will be able to treat all the things that are done in urgent care, but also at a higher level.

One Broward judge has captured the attention of trial junkies worldwide. Judge John "Jay" Hurley presides over bond court proceedings in Broward County , but his reach doesn't stop at the courtroom doors. "We are in love with Judge Hurley," Utah resident Cathy Russon said. "He is kind and really cares about the people that come before him while at the same time offering up doses of tough love and reality. " Russon, 45, is the co-owner of Courtchatter.tv, a website dedicated to courtroom drama and legal controversy that streams videos of court proceedings and offers a venue for users to chat about cases.

Like any in-depth profile, there's going to be really good material that couldn't find its way into the story. There was quite a bit to discuss when the topic was Coral Springs Christian pitcher Touki Toussaint. Toussaint, 17, is being projected as the No. 13 pick in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft on Thursday. The San Diego Padres own the 13th selection. One of the sources we spoke to was an American League scout. Here are some excerpts from the interview: -On Toussaint being one of a few power arms in the draft field: "You know there's always power arms and power arms are always at a value.

One South Florida hotel is offering more than room service. The Fort Lauderdale Marriott Pompano Beach Resort & Spa is providing free hotel stays for families with kids being treated at the Broward Children's Center rehabilitation facility in Pompano Beach. "This community has been so gracious to us, so when the opportunity came up, I didn't even think about it," said Marco Fuentes, the hotel's general manager. "I thought, what a great way to give back. What a great cause. " Under the program, launched two months ago and considered unusual among hotel offerings, the Marriott hosts one family at a time, allowing about four members to stay free of charge in oceanfront rooms for two or three nights.

The 500-room Seminole Hard Rock Hotel runs at 98 percent capacity. On Fridays and Saturdays, more than 40,000 people shuffle through the Hollywood casino complex. So the Seminoles are making some upgrades and renovations, CEO of Seminole Gaming Jim Allen said Friday. The total outlay for 2014 for the tribe's seven properties: $100 million. Some of that money will go toward building a hotel next to the Immokalee casino and adding a food court at the Seminole Classic casino in Hollywood.